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Study: A third of global groundwater basins are overstressed
Satellite data show people are overdrawing water from some of the world's largest groundwater basins. Researchers from the University of California, Irvine say it's unclear how much water is left in the most overburdened aquifers. The problem is expected to worsen with climate change and population growth. Using measurements taken by NASA's twin Grace satellites, scientists found the most ...
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Congresswoman Grace Napolitano Headlines Joint WRD & County Sanitation Districts Press Event
Federal Funds Awarded to Help Develop Local Water Supplies LAKEWOOD, CA - Congresswoman Grace Napolitano (D-38th) today announced the award of $300,000 in 2010 WaterSmart funding to the Water Replenishment District of Southern California (WRD). At a joint press conference with officials from WRD and the Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County, Napolitano said the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation ...
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WRD Named 2010 WateReuse Institution of the Year
Pre-eminent Association Recognizes WRD Innovative Water Projects LAKEWOOD, Calif. - The pre-eminent WateReuse Association has named the Water Replenishment District of Southern California (WRD) the WateReuse Institution of the Year for 2010. The award recognizes institutions whose significance and contributions to the community continue to advance the water reuse industry. The award was ...
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A New Framework for Groundwater Management
Today, ACWA released a new policy framework that calls on local water agencies throughout the state to implement groundwater management plans and strategies to meet sustainability objectives. The policy reasserted the importance of local agencies in managing groundwater and recommends 4 specific goals: 1) Local water agencies should implement groundwater management plans to meet sustainability ...
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WRD Hosts 7th Annual Groundwater Quality Workshop
The Water Replenishment District (WRD) today hosted its 7th Annual Groundwater Quality Workshop, featuring water quality experts from WRD and other agencies speaking on various topics of interest to engineers, water system operators and others who manage or operate public water systems. With about 100 participants from throughout WRD's service area, the workshop provided information necessary ...
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Largest Water Reuse Facility in the World Completes its Final Expansion
The Groundwater Replenishment System (GWRS), operated by the Orange County Water District in Southern California recently completed its final expansion. The largest reuse facility in the world can now treat 130 million gallons (nearly 500 million liters) of secondary wastewater a day. Treated effluent re-supplies local groundwater basins and acts as both a source of drinking water and a barrier ...
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Central Basin Extends the Public Comment Period for Draft PEIR
The Central Basin Municipal Water District Board of Directors voted Wednesday to extend the deadline for public comment on the draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Report (PEIR) of the Central Basin Groundwater Storage Plan until March 1, 2012. This extension, which gives stakeholders and interested parties a total of 110 days to provide comments, was in response to one of several requests ...
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Initial Expansion of the Groundwater Replenishment System – (2) 7.9 MG Equalization Tanks – Orange County Water District
Project scope included provided engineering, fabrication, erection and coating of two (2) 7.9 million gallon welded steel reservoirs. Foundation design for each tank required 449 concrete piles 60 to 65 feet deep, due to ground soil having extremely high liquefaction potential during a seismic event. The project takes highly treated wastewater and purifies it through a three-step process ...
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AEM surveys will assist groundwater management in California
The California Department of Water Resources has selected a team of consultants led by Ramboll to conduct airborne electromagnetic surveys in California’s high- and medium-priority groundwater basins. The surveys will provide a standardized statewide dataset which will improve understanding of large-scale aquifer structures and support implementation of the Sustainable Groundwater ...
By SkyTEM ApS
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Jordan - Groundwater to save the capital, for a while
Bundles of massive pipes lay along the 30 kilometre road from Amman’s main airport to the city, giving commuters an unusual scene to behold, and the government a tough bargain to quench the thirst for rapid economic development. A taxi driver explains that these pipes will be installed along a stretch of 350 kilometres to the Disi aquifer in the south of Jordan. “There is no other ...
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Yemen`s capital `will run out of water by 2025`
Water shortages in Yemen will squeeze agriculture to such an extent that 750,000 jobs could disappear and incomes could drop by a quarter within a decade, according to a report. Poor water management and the enormous consumption of water for the farming of the popular stimulant khatare blamed for the predicted water shortages, which experts say could lead to the capital Sana'a running out of ...
By SciDev.Net
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ACWA Presents Emissary Award to Greg Zlotnick
The Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA) today presented its sixth annual Emissary Award to Greg Zlotnick, a longtime water leader whose involvement with the association spans more than a decade. Presented at ACWA's 2011 Fall Conference & Exhibition in Anaheim, the award recognizes individuals for remarkable contributions to California water by supporting and advancing ACWA's ...
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ACWA Issues Recommendations for Improving Groundwater Management in California
ACWA today issued a suite of far-reaching recommendations for improving management of groundwater basins throughout California amid growing concerns about potentially unsustainable declines in groundwater levels and degraded water quality in some basins of the state. The recommendations include legislative and administrative changes that strengthen groundwater management and accountability ...
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Orange County Water District Joins Global Collaborative PFAS Project
While a global concern, the response to PFAS across geographies differ. There are many efforts in parallel around research, policy, and piloting of solutions; therefore, Isle is taking a leading role to synthesize qualified research and facilitate an independent review of emerging and market-ready solutions. Supported by the industry’s leading water utilities, this unique effort will ...
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Celebrating Innovative Groundwater Management: Fifty Years of Groundwater Recharge with Recycled Water
The following is being released by Water Replenishment District of Southern California: WHAT: Celebrating Innovative Groundwater Management: Fifty Years of Groundwater Recharge with Recycled Water. This event will mark the fiftieth anniversary of replenishing the region's groundwater basin (water supply to 10% of the state's population or over 4 million residents) using highly treated recycled ...
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Rep. Lowenthal (D-Long Beach) Joins WRD at Groundbreaking Ceremony to Expand Leo J. Vander Lans Advanced Water Treatment Facility
Officials with the Water Replenishment District (WRD) were joined today by local dignitaries, including Representative Alan Lowenthal (D-Long Beach), to break ground on a project to put more recycled water to good use – this time to act as a barrier to protect South Los Angeles County's critical groundwater supplies. The latest WRD project will expand the agency's existing Leo J. Vander ...
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Our World’s Water is Diminishing, But How Fast?
The University of California, Irvine (UCI) recently released two studies (here and here) using data from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites showing that the earth’s biggest groundwater basins are being depleted at troubling rates. The GRACE satellites observed the 37 largest aquifers on the planet by measuring their gravitational pull over the course of ...
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USA’s largest ION Exchange PFAS treatment facility begins operation in Yorba Linda
The Orange County Water District and the Yorba Linda Water District (YLWD) began operating the nation’s largest ion exchange (IX) treatment plant to remove per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from local well water. PFAS are a group of thousands of manmade, heat-resistant chemicals that are prevalent in the environment and are commonly used in consumer products to repel water, ...
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$1.7 Million In Federal Funding Awarded To WRD To Maximize Use Of Local Water Sources And Eliminate The Need For Imported Water
Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Michael L. Connor announced on May 21, 2013, the selection of five Title XVI water reuse projects in California and New Mexico to receive $15.6 million in funding through the Department of the Interior's WaterSMART program. The Water Replenishment District's (WRD) Leo J. Vander Lans Advanced Water Treatment Facility ...
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Governor signs first California groundwater rules
California will no longer be the last Western state with a pump-as-you-please approach to groundwater. Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation on Tuesday overhauling the state's management of its groundwater supply, bringing it in line with other states that have long regulated their wells. Groundwater makes up nearly 60 percent of California's water use during dry years. But it is not monitored ...
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